| Colorado Building Blocks | Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | HighScope COR | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. a - Communicate needs or thoughts through nonverbal gestures, actions, expressions and words. Participate in communication around a topic. |
Music Expression of Music 1 - Peform Expressively a - Use voices expressively when speaking, chanting, and singing Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 1 - Conceptual understanding conveyed through vocabulary words can occur using a variety of modalities c - Demonstrate use of vocabulary in oral language to express ideas and events Reading and Writing Reading for All Purposes 2 - Symbol, object, and letter recognition is a fundamental of reading and requires accuracy and speed c - Begin to name familiar objects, colors, letters, and numbers rapidly and in random order Reading and Writing Writing and Composition 1 - Pictures express ideas b - Orally describe or tell about a picture Social Studies Geography 1 - Develop spatial understanding, perspectives, and connections to the world. c - Describe surroundings |
Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs a - Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary 6 - Describes and tells the use of many familiar items Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs a - Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary 6 - Describes and tells the use of many familiar items Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs d - Tells about another time or place 6 - Tells stories about other times and places that have a logical order and that include major details Cognitive 14 - Uses symbols and images to represent something not present a - Thinks symbolically 6 - Plans and then uses drawings, constructions, movements, and dramatizations to represent ideas Social Studies 32 - Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge - - The Arts 34 - Explores musical concepts and expression - - |
Creative Representation J - Drawing and painting pictures 3 - Child draws or paints something and explains what it stands for. Language and Literacy R - Using vocabulary 1 - Child talks about people or objects close at hand. Language and Literacy S - Using complex patterns of speech 1 - Child uses words and phrases. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses language to express ideas and needs. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Print Concepts & Conventions: The concepts about print and early decoding (identifying letter-sound relationships). Recognizes print in everyday life, such as numbers, letters, one’s name, words, and familiar logos and signs. Literacy Knowledge & Skills Early Writing: The familiarity with writing implements, conventions, and emerging skills to communicate through written representations, symbols, and letters. Recognizes that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes, such as giving information, sharing stories, or giving an opinion. Social Studies Knowledge & Skills Self, Family, & Community: The understanding of one’s relationship to the family and community, roles in the family and community, and respect for diversity. Describes or draws aspects of the geography of the classroom, home, and community. Social Studies Knowledge & Skills People & the Environment: The understanding of the relationship between people and the environment in which they live. Recognizes aspects of the environment, such as roads, buildings, trees, gardens, bodies of water, or land formations. |
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Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. b - Use more complex and longer sentences. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 2 - Listening and comprehension skills are required to be clearly understood a - Use language to express ideas in complete sentences (with support of sentence stems as needed) |
Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs c - Uses conventional grammar 6 - Uses complete, four- to six-word sentences |
Language and Literacy S - Using complex patterns of speech 2 - Child uses a sentence of four or more words. |
Language Development Expressive Language: The ability to use language. Uses different grammatical structures for a variety of purposes. |
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Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. c - Communicate clearly enough to be understood by unfamiliar listeners. |
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Language Development and Communication 3 - Speaking and Communicating Children will use verbal and non-verbal language to express and communicate information. d - Begin a conversation with other children and adults. Understand an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. |
Reading and Writing Oral Expression and Listening 1 - Conceptual understanding conveyed through vocabulary words can occur using a variety of modalities d - Begin to understand that everyday words such as "cold" relate to extended vocabulary words such as "chilly" |
Language 9 - Uses language to express thoughts and needs a - Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary 6 - Describes and tells the use of many familiar items |
Language and Literacy R - Using vocabulary 3 - Child uses vocabulary related to a particular subject. |
Language Development Receptive Language: The ability to comprehend or understand language. Comprehends increasingly complex and varied vocabulary. |